Young people are more distracted while driving, are less precise and make more mistakes and infractions on the road if they listen to their favorite music at the wheel, according to a study by Ben-Gurion University (Israel) just published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention .
To investigate this, 85 young people, aged between 16 and 30 years old, were asked to drive a car for six journeys of 40 minutes each: two of them while playing a list of songs that they had chosen, two without music from background and two others with music specially designed by researcher Warren Brodsky and composer Micha Kisner to increase driver safety . The results revealed that while listening to their favorite music, 98% of drivers made at least three mistakes that in many cases were on the verge of causing an accident, and that without music 92% made a mistake. However, with the music created by Brodsky and Kisner playing in the background, the number of errors behind the wheel dropped to 20%.
